The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 3
‘So he called out, ‘Grandfather, you had better put your tongue here, so that the branches shall not touch you.’
Who acts: hare, you, branches · What happens: call out, have, put, not touch · To what, where: Grandfather, tongue, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, you, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grandfather | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grandfather | punct |
| 8 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 had | xcomp |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 put | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 touch | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 touch | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 branches | det |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 touch | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 touch | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 touch | advmod |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | hare | Grandfather | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | your tongue | here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal | |||
| 4 | not touch | shall | the branches | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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